Wedding ensemble

Design House House of Vionnet French
 Designer Madeleine Vionnet French

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This 1929 wedding dress is sectioned into shapes throughout its body and train of more than seven feet. There was an original lace veil, but here the dress without veil is a triumph of linear divisions made by the metallic cord. Elegant rivers of form spread from one hip or from the shoulder, their leaf-vein-like separations through the train making it seem even more elongated than it really is.

Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French

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Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French
Wedding ensemble, House of Vionnet (French, active 1912–14; 1918–39), silk, French

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